The Little Box of Feminist Flair: With Pins, Patches, & Magnets
Lauren Mancuso and Anna Fleiss
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Smash the patriarchy in style with The Little Box of Feminist Flair! With fabulous, fearless females...
The One Hundred Nights of Hero
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"A feminist fairy-tale, which I recommend if you're looking for a Christmas present for a teenage...
Shakespeare and Feminist Theory
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Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of strong women? Or are they...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Book of the Unnamed Midwife in Books
Oct 24, 2017 (Updated Oct 24, 2017)
After a fever kills most of the Earth's population, specifically women and children, making childbirth deadly, a midwife attempts to survive an extremely precarious situation for her gender. In the new world, women are routinely raped and sold, used as baby making machines and commodified as a bartering tool.
Her only option is to disguise herself as a man and attempt to make her way across the country in search for a beacon of hope. She faces age-old prejudices, such as religion and patriarchy, while trying to be a guide to humanity.
No doubt, it is extremely dark, and some of it is very disturbing, so brace yourself for feeling a little queasy.
Salomé
Oscar Wilde and Kimberly Stern
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Salome is Oscar Wilde's most experimental-and controversial-play. In its own time, the play, written...
James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Wakenhyrst in Books
Jul 17, 2020
As you know I don't like to give away the story, wanting you to discover the pages yourself. Wakenhyrst is set in the early 1900s and is a dark githic thriller about past deeds haunting the now, and like her other books it's spectacular.
Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC's Parks and Recreation
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Widely hailed as one of the best feminist-oriented series on television, NBC's Parks and Recreation...
Gareth von Kallenbach (971 KP) rated Mary Queen of Scots (2018) in Movies
Jul 2, 2019
The film is a display of the hard hands of men attempting to crush the ambitions of women. The manipulative and aggressive power of the patriarchy is a theme sown throughout the story.
This tale is filled with twists and turns, betrayal, romance, gore, and heartache. It is a portrayal of a timeless theme.
The audience will be placed in another world of the distant past where life was poor, brutish, nasty, and short, as Leviathan would have put it.
Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I, embodies a woman absorbed by the challenge of maintaining her crown. She forfeits her femininity to become a masculine ruler out of necessity and the impact upon her is great in sacrifice.
On the other hand, her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, played by Saoirse Ronan, is an ambitious leader with hopes to bring peace between two kingdoms at all costs.
Ronan delivers an elegant and passionate performance as Mary, a headstrong and fearless lady of power with rosy cheeks and eyes full of brightness. She believes in love and she believes in truth, but she also believes in war. The audience will experience where her values and virtue lead her.
If escape from the mundane modern world is what the movie goer desires, this will be the perfect film. It is a balance of everything and a reflection of life itself in all its most ugly and beautiful moments.
Director Josie Rourke has delivered a riveting historical drama onto the big screen.
The film has an ethereal and realistic way of reviving this piece of our past. But heed my warning, it will not be for the faint of heart.
The Wrong of Injustice: Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy
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This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective. It asks:...
Awix (3310 KP) rated On the Basis of Sex (2018) in Movies
Mar 1, 2019
Well-mounted and with some decent performances, and there are some startling revelations (sex discrimination was not considered unconstitutional in the US until fairly recently), but the actual story of the main case covered by the film is not that gripping (a lot of discussion of legal procedure and tax law), and the earnestness of the film also threatens to make it a bit indigestible: of course RBG is an important figure fighting for a good cause, but that doesn't mean any film about her has to feel like The Lives of the Saints. The documentary about Ginsberg is also flawed, but more peppy than this.